Re: architectures with their own "config PCMCIA"

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_fs.tum.de)
Date: 08/16/04

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To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>

    On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 01:01:35AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:

    > Hi,

    Hi Roman,

    > On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
    >
    > > > What about normal numbers? I don't think requiring quotes everywhere for
    > > > this is a good idea.
    > >
    > > And numbers (both decimal and hex) can easily be distinguished from y, n, and m
    > > anyway.
    >
    > I did consider this at some point, but I didn't want to add further
    > special cases. Every symbol has a tristate and a string value and so you
    > can compare pretty much everything with everything else. Splitting the
    > string value further into other types isn't worth the trouble. The problem
    > at hand is easy enough to solve by adding a type declaration.

    if things stay as they are, we _really_ need warnings for !=n and
    rewrite the correct ones to (FOO=y || FOO=m).

    > bye, Roman

    cu
    Adrian 

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